1+1+1 is a triptych of exhibitions: three authors – an architect, a designer and a painter – have accepted the invitation to share the vast Assab One spaces, partly renovated for the event. Each of them has chosen to produce new works for the occasion confirming the connection between art, architecture and design. Their works are accommodated in different, yet adjoining, environments that promote a shared, energetic and open interaction that investigates and experiments the blending of languages and the overlaying of meanings.
1+1+1
1+1+1 is a triptych of exhibitions: three authors – an architect, a designer and a painter who have accepted the invitation to share the Assab One spaces in Milan.
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- 25 March 2017
- Milan
Bijoy Jain’s highly emotional body of work has drawn largely from his interest in the act of observation – a perception untouched by prejudice – of things which can be found in nature.
Trained as an architect, he considers man to be synonymous with material, where the former is a measure of an environment in a state of constant flux.
The relationship between the two-dimensional and the three-dimensional is a central element in Chung Eun Mo’s painting. Her analysis of perspective and her dedication to its construction, result in a form of conceptual art that leads to a rigorous, concrete and tangible creation of shape and space compositions. A structural approach to painting that, while retaining its originality, evokes the tradition of Le Corbusier and Josef Albers in the constancy of pursuit and boundless experimenting.
George Sowden, designer – one of the founders of Memphis – uses elements of his industrial productions and transforms them into a personal vocabulary to create a series of impressive installation. Designer said: “I have constructed art works (and I do consider them art) using some bits-and-pieces taken from manufactured objects that I designed, including patterns I did for textiles and decorations from my ceramics. Using them as raw material I have rearranged them, sometimes changing the scale, and installing them in such a way that they are no longer recognisable as products. Decontextualised they are just colours and shapes.”
27 March – 26 May 2017
1+1+1. Bijoy Jain + George Sowden + Chung Eun Mo
a project by Elena Quarestani, curated by Marco Sammicheli
Assab One
via Privata Assab 1, Milan